Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paris palpitated with reports last week that in French North Africa the Arabs were "rising" against the Jews. Instanter Jewish Premier Léon Blum rushed home from Geneva and summoned to Paris by plane Governor General of Algeria Georges Le Beau. Consternation increased as Minister of Interior Roger Salengro confided to reporters that he feared "a veritable war of religions is breaking out in North Africa...
...facts behind this Blum cabinet hubbub were that in Algiers a Jew who had confessed to murdering an Arab was lynched by a mob of 300 Arabs. In Gafsa, Tunisia, 2,000 Arabs rampaged through the Jewish quarter, wrecking homes and shops, seriously wounding one Senegalese policeman, and in some streets raising cries of "Vive Hitler...
...rivals for leadership in Palestine, the last insult fell last year when a Hussein beat out Ragheb Bey Nashashibi for the mayoralty of Jerusalem which he had held for 14 years. The Hussein had had the votes of Jerusalem Jews. The enraged Nashashibi plotted a great Arab revolt against Jewish immigration to win Arab leadership from the head of Husseini, Haj Amin el Husseini, president of the Moslem Supreme Council and, as Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, spiritual leader of Palestine Moslems. The point was that the Grand Mufti, in the event of an Arab revolt, must either give...
Such impudent talk from youngsters to the Grand Mufti revealed a still deeper cause of last week's revolt: the crackup of the Arab social hierarchy in Palestine. Jewish development of Palestine has weakened the downtrodden Arab farm workers to the feudal tyranny of their Arab masters, has raised wage and living standards in Palestine, introduced the eight-hour day, encouraged Arab trade-unions. Result: economic liberation of Arab farmers. At bottom the anti-Jewish rage of the Arab landowners, backed by their Bedouin cavalry hordes, was caused by this unexpected social upheaval. But the leaders are willing...
Last fortnight another of the promises sprayed about by British diplomats in 1917 came home to roost when Britain's Wartime Minister David Lloyd George reminded the House of Commons: "The Balfour Declaration [for a British-backed Jewish homeland in Palestine] was made at one of the darkest times in the War. The French army had mutinied, the Italian army was on the eve of collapse, America had hardly started to come in. There was nothing left but for Great Britain to confront the most powerful military combination the world has ever seen. We came to the conclusion that...